NPR Top 50 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the 2010s

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NPR conducted a poll for listeners' favorite science fiction and fantasy books released between 2011 and 2021. A panel of judges then went through the results and selected the top 50 books spanning both genres.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer	3.58	220 reads
A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab	3.99	770 reads
A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie	4.39	193 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.07	1,472 reads
A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark	4.06	214 reads
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine	4.17	416 reads
American War Omar El Akkad	3.77	85 reads
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie	4	455 reads
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon	3.96	95 reads
A Stranger in Olondria Sofia Samatar	3.4	13 reads
Binti Nnedi Okorafor	3.77	224 reads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1) Marlon James	3.05	102 reads
Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse	4.17	175 reads
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky	4.29	623 reads
Circe Madeline Miller	4.26	1,188 reads
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett	4.16	192 reads
Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire	3.91	411 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.25	366 reads
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)	4.06	674 reads
Her Body And Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.83	181 reads
Jade City Fonda Lee	4.11	473 reads
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.24	1,026 reads
Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia Dan Sociu (Translator)	3.74	526 reads
Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee	3.6	172 reads
On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu	4.25	6 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke Viktor Janiš (translator)	4.24	1,011 reads
Radiance Catherynne M. Valente	3.27	50 reads
Riot Baby	3.77	56 reads
Rosewater Tade Thompson	3.82	86 reads
Sorcerer to the Crown Zen Cho	3.56	54 reads
Spinning Silver Naomi Novik	4.2	298 reads
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.1	882 reads
The Bird King G. Willow Wilson	3.89	26 reads
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro	3.56	151 reads
The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal	4.06	234 reads
The Changeling Victor LaValle	3.81	82 reads
The City of Brass S. A. Chakraborty	4.06	293 reads
The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi	4.09	294 reads
The Echo Wife Sarah Gailey	3.67	134 reads
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin	4.33	887 reads
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison	4.15	240 reads
The Just City Jo Walton	3.66	32 reads
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers	4.13	683 reads
The Martian Andy Weir	4.4	1,932 reads
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Ken Liu	4.34	143 reads
The Poppy War R. F. Kuang	4.03	676 reads
The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson	3.81	161 reads
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	3.91	1,323 reads
The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson	3.84	170 reads
This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone	3.88	951 reads